The Country Like A Score - Lyrics - Gazillion

Well we felll From Minnesota Into Iowa's great plains And we barreled through the brier With the rascal at the reigns And then we trudged Along the gully And got lost among the grains And we pushed on But nothing in Nebraska seemed to change And we climbed Through Colorado A crescendo to the clouds And from the mountaintops immortalized We'd shout our names out loud We hit the desert Like a drum Clear as a cadence And as steady We checked our pulses with our thumbs And by our heartbeats we were ready "And we must break the trail or die" I heard the Navigator cry And i thought he must be losing his mind To which the rascal soon replied With a fire in his eyes "I can think of no catastrophe Could keep us from our prize" Well we set out with the sun To learn the country like a score And our eyes, and ears, and instruments Were aching to record And we saw songs along the landscape And we saw clefs drawn on the ground And in the key of perseverance Well we dove into the sound And then a dust storm drew upon us Like a surge of violins We plugged our ears And we ducked our heads But somehow the sound got in Then we rose like resolution From the dust of dissonance And we brushed it from our shoulders Knowing we still had a chance And there were oh so many stars Above our heads and in our hearts We went crazy just trying to count them But I'd have sworn to the skies I had worn out my eyes In the valleys, on the moors, and in the mountains And then i saw that rascal lying Like a lyric on the sand I reached to grasp him with my good arm And i pulled him up to stand And as the navigator grinned And said we're doing the right thing And as the sunlight kissed his skin And his eyes lit up again Well i knew that it was finally time to sing